Toni Collette met Richard Glover to talk about her role in new film Hitchcock. Starring Anthony Hopkins as the iconic filmmaker, Toni plays the master of suspense's secretary Peggy.

She told Richard "I had two photographs of her to go by and one interview. From the photographs I kind of got the idea she seemed progressive'.

'The fifties was such a strange period for women, there were certain limitations and certain expectations and she just didn't seem to adhere to it, both in her fashion sense and the way she held herself'.

'She seemed really strong and very much an individual and quite self-possessed. And yet here was this woman who gave up her life for someone else's life work and I found that a wonderful contradiction to play.'

"She's very crisp, she's very much involved, but also has to just to disappear into the background at times. A little eye roll here, a little tut under her breath says a lot, and I'm sure he (Hitchcock) was lot to put up with.'

The movie concentrates on the time in the director's life when he made Psycho.

Toni told Richard, "I guess the film is about this guy who has this gut instinct to want to tell a story and have a visceral film-making experience which makes him feel alive again.'

'He has this conversation with his wife where he says 'I just want to feel, I just want to have that excitement from when we first started out'.

Everyone says no, you're crazy, it's going to be a dodgy, terrible movie and he listens to his gut and just goes for it and I think that's a really wonderful thing.'

Richard asked Toni about life with a young family living here in Australia but still travelling overseas a lot. 'We call ourselves a travelling circus, but as long as we're together everything's cool.

I don't want my kids to have an American accent. We spend enough time there anyway and we love Australia, it's where we're from and that's where my family and friends are, it feels familiar and it feels comforting and relaxed and normal. Home is home'.